68 points

I still don’t see the appeal of RGB in your computer, personally. I just don’t think it looks good.

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7 points

It really sucks, indeed. But I upvote the meme.

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3 points

As someone who keeps his pc on and has it in his bedroom they are a bane of my existence. All I need is my keyboard when I am using it.

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23 points

I don’t mind RGB as long as it’s easy to turn off and it stays off forever.

What I do mind is that my desktop turned on the RGB is off, but as soon as I shut it down it turns on. And guess what’s at the perfect angle to get blasted with the light? My bed. I eventually found the SEPARATE TOGGLE FOR RGB IN S5 STATE, but guess what constantly gets turned back on with every bios update?

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My fucking RGB is hardwired, meaning I can’t turn it off because it doesn’t communicate with the motherboard. I did not ask for nor pay for this, it was an “add on” that Cyber Power tossed in for free…I hate it so much.

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2 points

Which component is it? Is you psu equipped with rgb? 🤔

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1 point

I think there may be physical buttons for those fans

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1 point

Same. I bought a prefab desktop last year and it came with RGB and there was no way to disable it though the software. I just ended up removing the jumper for it.

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1 point

Monkey brain likes the lights.

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2 points

I’m in the same boat, wasted of time and money. I want a black box that is functional, not a night light with all the colors.

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1 point

I did full RGB/water cooling (AIO)

One of the fans went wonky and the wiring is a nightmare. RMA’d the unit, bought a bunch of black high-end 120mm fans, black d15 cooler, black (faster) RAM, and a 1000w PSU. The wiring is SO MUCH CLEANER in the back, the machine is completely silent, and no more wonky flashing fan. I can’t even tell when it’s on. I love it.

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3 points

Wiring? You mean you don’t just shove the components in there and make sure fans and airflow aren’t affected and go?

Am I the only one who doesn’t cable management at all?

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2 points

It’s a cancer on humanity. Nowadays you have to pay extra if you want for example a keyboard without the pointless rainbow lights.

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5 points

A cancer on humanity? That’s a bit dramatic.

You know you don’t have to have it dancing in rainbow patterns right? You can choose any color you like and even have it be static. I have most of my keys in blue, with the function and numpad in a soft white. This is a relaxing layout for me that helps me focus. But if you hate it so much, simply turn the lights off, that was always an option. Plus I think you are overreacting a bit, there are plenty of good keyboards out there without rgb that don’t cost much.

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A cancer on humanity? That’s a bit dramatic.

Right. I’d call it yet another case of enshittification - that word fits well in other areas of tech apart from the web.

Every device or tool having Wi-Fi and wanting you to install an app would be another example.

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1 point

Plenty of non-rgb keyboards, like anything aimed at business. But also you can just turn the rgb off.

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I love when it’s well integrated with a game and I feel it adds to the experience. I don’t see a problem as long as it can be turned off for the people who care.

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3 points

Had one back when it was the hype, but its just annoying. Nowadays my case is a huge (enormous, but much space for cable management and airflow) black box. No panels, no light. Feels better

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2 points

its like ground effects for cars, no one needs them but some people like to be fancy

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3 points

Preach. I don’t even have a window on mine. I want my machine to blend into the room. All the showy stuff feels like you need to show off to justify the price.

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I just realized that my PC doesn’t have any RGB. My previous one had it on basically everything but the RAM. Now it’s just my keyboard which is set to white.

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I think it only looks cool as an accent or whenever it has a proper diffuser to highlight a key spot like certain RGB fans with a case that has a clear front or side.

Then you can go set the color and brightness to make a theme.

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The only RGB I have is a tiny module in my mouse’s scroll wheel, and that’s it. I didnt realise the mouse had that module when I bought it and I was quite irritated because of that but I’ve grown to actually like it.

On another note, I’m using an old keyboard that’s basically at death’s door because it seems like it’s literally IMPOSSIBLE to find a good keyboard without RGB in it. It’s insane.

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99 points

Aren’t modern GPUs more in the 200-500W range? They’ve gotten very power hungry recently.

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64 points

remember when they just plugged into the motherboard and didn’t need multiple external power connections?

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4 points

I built a PC out of some spare parts recently, and was marveling at not having to plug a power cable into the graphics card (a 1050 Ti). The sacrifices we make for graphics quality…

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5 points

Hey, I had ATI 6990… those were the times

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13 points

The days of powering your computer with a potato are long behind us comrad

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3 points

Haha one of my earliest PCs didn’t even have a CPU fan!

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1 point

When I upgraded my PC decades ago, it didn’t even have a heatsink. Just bare ceramic. Fans weren’t really a requirement until the Pentium era, or maybe the late 486 era.

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6 points

RX 560 runs at 50w and can run old games at 1080p

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17 points

Is 7 years old modern though?

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8 points

That’s about how long it’s been since I’ve gotten a new card, so I’m going to say yes.

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6 points

I hope people are using that power for worthwhile things.

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15 points

Uhh yeah, totally! Hides AI-generated image of a scantily-clad anime girl with twelve fingers and three tits.

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16 points

twelve fingers and three tits.

I can’t tell if that was generated with a weak and lazy prompt or an incredibly detailed prompt asking for that exact configuration.

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Can’t speak for the most modern ones which I know are worse, but I was pretty surprised when I recently got a smart plug with power monitoring recently to find that my system with a 3080 (though, undervolted slightly), 16-core cpu, way too many peripherals, eight various drives, several small screens and dual monitors, only pulls 600-650W under full load.

I got the plugs to help me choose an appropriate UPS, and I don’t need one as powerful as I’d thought I would.

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I need to get one of those. I have 5 spinning disks + 1 SSD, though not much else high powered - it’s a file server, CPU is at least 8 years old, and GPU (if you can even call it that) is passively cooled… I just replaced my 500W power supply because its fan had died (explains why occasionally I’d come home and find it powered off) and nothing under 650W had enough SATA power connectors, so that’s what I ended up with. Curious how overkill it is…

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I run Linux on an old gaming PC that I use as a file server / jellyfin server / homeassistant / probably a bunch more I’m forgetting, and that one rarely goes above 50W, lol. Haven’t tested it under full load, though.

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1 point

Does it even go lower?

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5 points

I must be out of touch. What’s RGB in this context?

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13 points

Red Green Blue, got to have a ton of RGB lighting in their PC.

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30 points

Ruth Gader Binsburg

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1 point

LED lighting. Usually can adjust to whatever color lighting you like. Pure aesthetic value, no actual benefit to the performance of the machine itself.

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9 points

If your power consumption is actually 250 then go for a 500w PSU. You’ll get better efficiency.

Anandtech (rip) used to be my go-to for PSU efficiency curves.

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Better efficiency is only part of it, you’ll also get better longevity on the power supply.

I have a few 1k watt PSUs left over from my bitcoin mining days and all but one of them are still good.

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Also never cheap out on the PSU. If your shit PSU dies, it might fry every component in your PC, if your good PSU dies, you can just replace it.

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I once had a PSU fail catastrophically- arcing, visible from around a corner and down a hall, and quite loud. I didn’t want to go near it, circuit breakers were closer anyway, but I didn’t know which one so I just hit them all. Once replaced, I fired up the machine and… I think the cmos was cleared, but other than that, no ill effects.

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